Ancient Greece Geography

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Ancient Greece Geography Strabo Born in Greece, Pontus in 64 BC and died in 23 AD He was a greek geographer and a historian. He studied at Nysa under the grammarian Aristodemus Strabo is mostly famous for his 17-volume work which is called Geographica. Within the books of Geographica he made a map of Europe and a map of the world. Ptolemy He was born in 90AD and died in 168AD. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features of the world. Arda Dagkilic & Ahmed Canatan Latitude is measured from the equator, but Ptolemy preferred to measure it by his 8th book that he wrote. When he was finding the coordinates, he used degrees and put the meridian of 0 degrees on longitude. He was so good in making maps,that he gave instructions on how to make maps. Eratoshenes He was born in Cyrene at 276BC and died at 195BC. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth. Works Cited Websites:"Reference " + N + "" MacTutor History of Mathematics. Web. 24 Apr. 2010. <http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Eratosthenes.html>.

''Land in Greece.'' World History. 2003. Amerca. Not only was he a geographer, but he was a Greek mathematician, elegiac poet, athlete, geographer, and astronomer He made several discoveries and inventions including a system of latitude and longitude How geography helps us in our modern lives: If they didn't make maps or create longitude and latitude, we would get lost more often and we wouldn't know the exact location of a place. How the Greek geographers influenced us: Without the Greek geographers, we could not be able to find exact locations but now we can. What the world would be like without the Greek Geographers: Life would be very hard. On a map you woudn't find coordinates and becauseof that you woudn't find the exact locations.